HBA-MPM S.B. 225 76(R)    BILL ANALYSIS


Office of House Bill AnalysisS.B. 225
By: Bivins
Public Education
4/21/1999
Engrossed



BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE 

Current law requires the board of trustees of a public school district to
publish an annual report describing the educational performance of the
district and of each campus that also includes uniform student performance
and certain descriptive information.  The report does not include
information regarding the performance of recent graduates from the district
who are attending institutions of higher education.  S.B. 225 requires the
annual report to each district to include information relating to the
academic performance of high school graduates in institutions of higher
education, so that districts can better evaluate how successful their
individual high schools are at preparing students for institutions of
higher education. 

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY

It is the opinion of the Office of House Bill Analysis that this bill does
not expressly delegate any additional rulemaking authority to a state
officer, department, agency, or institution. 

SECTION BY SECTION ANALYSIS

SECTION 1.  Amends Section 39.053(a), Education Code, to provide that the
annual report published by each board of trustees of an independent school
district and each district campus, that includes uniform student
performance and descriptive information, must include information received
under Section 51.403(e) (Reports of Student Enrollment and Academic
Performance), Education Code, for each high school campus in the district,
presented in a form determined by the commissioner of education. 

Section 51.403(e) requires postsecondary institutions, under guidelines
established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas College
and University System, and State Board of Education, to report student
performance during the first year enrolled after graduation from high
school to the high school or junior college last attended, and requires the
report to include appropriate student test scores, a description of
developmental courses required, and the student's grade point average.
Furthermore, the section requires appropriate safeguards for student
privacy to be included in the rules for implementing this subsection. 

SECTION 2.  Effective date:  September 1, 1999.

SECTION 3.  Emergency clause.